Legislative Communication and Power: Measuring Leadership from Social Media Data

• In Event: New Approaches to Study Legislatures, Policy, and Political Systems

Brief Overview

This paper uses novel communications data from congressional Twitter accounts to study legislative communication and leadership organization using innovative natural language processing methods.

Authors

• Daniel Ebanks, California Institute of Technology

• R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology

• Betsy Sinclair, Washington University in St Louis

• Sanmay Das, George Mason University

• Hao Yan, Facebook